[Avid-L2] Re: OT: FCP and color levels

> Job ter Burg wrote:
> If we drag/import the file into FCP, it seems to lift the blacks and lower
> the whites. Ergo, it seems to treat any QT import as having 0-255 levels.

Check and see if the gamma settings in FCP affect this. They will if it's animation codec, but shouldn't if it's ProRes or uncompressed.

> Is there any way around that in FCP?

I don't think so.

> On another system, with a BlackMagicDesign card installed, we found that the
> HDSDI output sends out legal levels (16-235 measured in 8-bit), but the HDMI
> output seems to have the levels expanded to 0-255.

Not sure about BMD, but in general, FCP adjusts levels inside the interface to look right on a computer screen. So the only correct level is what comes out the hardware. The scopes in FCP are accurate, but only relative. So their 0-100 range don't necessarily relate to 16-235. In fact, in my testing, it seems like it actually matches 0-235. I presume the HDMI setting is designed to go to a computer display and may be jacked around because of this. There may be settings for this in the BMD control panel.

- Oliver

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